ETSC’s Year Book 2005 places transport safety in the context of sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on environmental sustainability. Transport safety work, at all political levels, frequently encounters environmental issues, either finding possibilities for making the transport system both safer and environmentally sounder, or confronting negative and potentially harmful environmental side-effects of measures to make it safer. It is in particular this potential conflict between safety and the environment - as well as the various ways of trying to resolve it - that is of interest to ETSC. The intention of the 2005 Year Book is to facilitate an integrated and systemic perspective on transport risks to life, limb, health and the environment. The individual papers identify synergies between safe and sustainable transport measures in order to help significantly reduce all transport risks alike. Although, accident/injury prevention and environmental protection are discussed predominantly in relation to road transport, ETSC has welcomed papers addressing these issues within the non-road modes. (Author/publisher)
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